1928 in France

"See also:"
1927 in France,
other events of 1928,
1929 in France.

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Events from the year 1928 in France.

Events

*22 April - Legislative Election held.
*29 April - Legislative Election held.
*27 August - The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris - it was the first treaty which outlawed aggressive war.

port

*17 June - Tour de France begins.
*15 July - Tour de France ends, won by Nicolas Frantz of Luxembourg.

Births

January to June

*6 January - Capucine, actress (d.1990).
*17 January - Jean Barraqué, composer (d.1973).
*23 January - Jeanne Moreau, actress.
*24 January - Michel Serrault, actor (d.2007).
*26 January - Roger Vadim, film director (d.2000).
*10 February - Jean-Luc Lagardère, engineer and businessman (d.2003).
*23 February - André Strappe, international soccer player (d.2006).
*3 March - Pierre Michelot, double bass player (d.2005).
*2 April - Serge Gainsbourg, poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director (d.1991).
*12 April - Jean-François Paillard, conductor.
*28 April - Yves Klein, artist (d.1962).
*3 May - Jacques-Louis Lions, mathematician (d.2001).
*28 May - André Schwarz-Bart, novelist (d.2006).
*17 June - Jean-Pierre Abbat, joint first person in the USA to manufacture polyurethane (d.1993).

July to December

*10 July — Bernard Buffet, painter (d.1999).
*13 July - Jeanne Loriod, musician (d.2001).
*3 October - Christian d'Oriola, Olympic gold medal winning foil fencer (d.2007).
*31 October - Jean-François Deniau, statesman, diplomat, essayist and novelist (d.2007).
*13 November - Michel Gauquelin, psychologist and statistician (d.1991).
*17 November - Arman, artist (d.2005).
*2 December - Guy Bourdin, photographer (d.1991).
*31 December - Siné, cartoonist.

Full date unknown

*Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, psychoanalyst (d.2006).
*Jacques Médecin, politician (d.1998).
*Jean-Jacques Millant, bow maker (d.1998).
*Jacques Poirier, painter (d.2002).

Deaths

*7 March - Jules Auguste Lemire, priest and social reformer (b.1853).
*23 October - François Victor Alphonse Aulard, historian (b.1849).
*18 December - Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq, dermatologist (b.1856).

Full date unknown

*Édouard-Henri Avril, painter and commercial artist (b.1843).
*Achille Maffre de Baugé, poet (b.1855).
*Jean Bourdeau, writer (b.1848).
*Paul Ferrier, dramatist (b.1843).
*Yves Guyot, politician and economist (b.1843).

References